1950 INTRODUCTIONS 
TERRIFIC 
GoLp LoDE X GOLDEN GODDESS 
(About 70 days)...Sdlg. No. R-31. At last the honest 
to goodness deep canary yellow of top performance. 
Illustrated on front cover of this list, photo of which was 
taken from the first spike to bloom frem a large bulb in 
1949. Has a very faint small pin line barely noticable on 
lip. 5% inch floret with very strong attachment, 12-13 
open, 22 buds, 29 inch flowerhead, 69 inches overall, well 
open not hooded, tall thin fairly dark green slightly 
drooping healthy foliage 49 inches tall and clean healthy 
bulbs. From large bulbs 16 buds were showing color be- 
fore any opened with six opening the first morning. Plain 
petals with some fluting on edges. Straight strong stem 
to tip. Florets opening in water to the last bud. First 
bloom in 1944. Treated with corrosive sublimate it bloomed 
in 70 days, not treated in 63 days. Last spring early we 
planted 32 bulblets in two large baskets in our bulb house, 
31 germinated coming through the ground in just 10 days 
from planting. Last fall we dug three jumbo bulbs that 
were planted early, carefully keeping them separate until 
cured and cleaned. On counting the blts. of these three 
they averaged 197 per bulb not counting a lot of pin heads. 
While blts. are quite small they germinate almost 100%. 
Have only one shell which is very thin thus eliminating 
shelling or soaking. ‘Terrific is an all weather glad. The 
past two years it has bloomed during our hottest weather 
and as we used it extensively for hybridizing, near all 
spikes bloomed out in the field and in 95 to 100 degrees 
of hot sun showed no signs of wilt or burn. With such top 
performance it is bound to be a fine commercial. 
It has taken ten years of pains taking special crossing 
and many thousands of yellow sdlgs, to produce Terrific. 
In 1948 the floods destroyed practically all our plant- 
ing stock of this variety and we had to start over in 1949 
with about 1600 blts. salvaged from a few No. 3 bulbs 
and our present blt. stock is mostly from a few jumbos. 
We probably should not offer blts. this season as we are 
anxious to built up a large stock for commercial, but 
bulblet production was so good that we finally decided 
to loosen up on bits. feeling sure our stock is inadequate 
to fill all orders. Also we will offer bulbs in No. 6 size 
only this year. All large bulbs must be held for our own 
blt. production. TERRIFIC is terrific all will agree. 
Not just another yellow that happened. Other intro- 
ducers would ask double our introductory price. Per each 
No. 6, $2.00; Bits. each .60 or 10 for $5.00. 
